Klaus, I played around with doing eveything the 'hard way' - downloading syslinux and creating my own initrd but eventually I simply took diskboot.img from the Fedora installation CD (There is one specifically for HD/USB pen drive booting). This is also syslinux based which makes it very very easy to customize. The one thing I have not done is put together a complete installation on a USB pendrive. The RPMS's are served over http. This is partly because my usb pendrives are only 64Mb but mainly because I wanted to integrate the kickstart and yum repository as described here: http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2005/02/17/kickstart_updates.html If you simply want to boot off the pen drive and fetch the files from elsewhere then it is pretty straight forward - although some BIOSes simply don't want to play - you can get info about this problem if you download the syslinux distribution:- README.usbkey http://syslinux.zytor.com/ I used a 64Mb Easydisk USB 2.0 pen drive. I am not sure there is much more to it but if there is anything else you want to know give me a shout. Regards Harry On Thu, 25 Aug, Klaus Steden wrote: > I could have sworn Harry Mills said this Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 08:07:23PM +0100 ... > > > > What does the KS log say (<Alt>+<F3>)? Can you see it get the correct IP > > from the DHCP server on eth0? On my install (Which is booted from a USB key) > > I see it get the network info for eth2 (my onboard card) and then fetch the > > ks.cfg. It never attempts to initialise any of the other cards. > > > Harry, > > I am interested in switching to USB boot media instead of optical ... got any > pointers for someone familiar with the process, but not so familiar with the > particular technique? > > Klaus > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > -- Harry Mills Chief Technical Manager Opendium Ltd. http://www.opendium.com/
